The Mentally Brave

Chapter 21

"Harry you bloody saved us back there" Niall exclaims

"He's a fucking lie detector" Harry growls. I came to that realization when I read Michael's mind. Harry told Michael that we met last winter when he was at the US and when I found out I'll be coming to the UK I let him know. I read Michael not being able to detect if Harry is lying or telling the truth.

I knew I had a lot of explaining to do when I get back to my room and face Taylor. But for now we had to figure out what to do with Michael.

"There has to be a way around him" I say sitting on the end of the king size bed at the suite.

"Harry is the way around it" Ed replies.

"Yes but Harry isn't part of the student group, he can't be there with us the whole time" Niall sits down beside me.

"Harry can't even get into the building" I am struggling to remember what I had said before that made Michael leave me be.

"How can you pull one over a lie detector?" Ed questions Liam

"Heart rate" Liam answers

"He isn't like the machine" I throw myself back spreading on the bed.

"This is a problem, how come we haven't known about him before?" Harry asks himself out loud.

"He was hidden. His file was encrypted" Liam turns the laptop so we can have a look.

"What does that mean?"

We all get up and shift closer to see what is shown on the screen.

"It means that he was hidden well in the company's lists of agents. I didn't know to look for him since his name isn't on the list of against over here" Liam shows us the file with all the workers names.

"But now after what you said happen I was digging deeper and found this" Liam clicks some more and a new list comes up.

"This is interesting" Ed scratches his chin.

"I have a feeling that if I look up each and every name here and dig deeper they will all turn out to be just like us"

"This is not good, we should have known about this before" Harry walks to the bar. He takes out a beer battle and opened it. Ed snaps his fingers for a bottle as well. Harry walks back to us with four more bottles one for each.

"But this doesn't change a thing. We are still getting Perrie" I say watching Harry's face.

"It means we need to be more careful"

"I know how to get through Michael" I suddenly remember "Liam is right- heart rate"

"What are you talking about?" Ed seems confused

"Earlier today Dr. Cowell called on me and at first Michael turned and gave me a look as if he knew I was bullshitting them, but Niall calmed me down and I sounded sure of what I was saying and convincing. Convincing enough even for Michael" I smile

"That's right" Niall remembers as well, "I just need to make sure we are calm enough if and when they ask us questions and then we'll be fine"

"You will be working hard Ni, it will use up all your energy" Liam gives him a skeptic look.

"Only when Michael is near"

"This is all we got against him we have no better choice" I sigh. I look over at the boys, watching the looks on their faces, we all know this is all we have and we may do with it.

"Taylor? You're still up?" I open the door to our room, Harry standing behind me. We thought it might be a better idea if he came with me to explain since she has a weak spot for pretty faces.